“Transgender Cricketer Suing ECB"

[DameProfessorIDareSay]

Telegraph headline, not my words. Sad bloke ‘forced to come out’ as biologically male. Where’s my tiny violin. No doubt the fox botherer will get some gullible fools to chuck money at this:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c07248218caf10dc

"The player, whose legal action against the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is being spearheaded by The Good Law Project, also spoke of being “completely heartbroken” by a decision taken in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces."

The Good Law Project also quoted a volunteer it described as “heavily involved in women’s cricket” who said he had conversations with players that showed the “overwhelming majority don’t have any issue at all playing alongside or against trans women”.
“They’re sad the ruling happened, and feel like the women’s game is worse as a result,” the volunteer said.

wow, compelling stuff. A random male volunteer claims to have spoken to a few handmaidens.

The handmaidens can go and play mixed cricket.

I thought there was a safety as well as a fairness aspect to women playing cricket with men. Do women playing mixed cricket have to acknowledge that it is more dangerous and they are willing to take the risk? (like I think they need to do with rugby?)

'Categories' i.e. a blanket ban on some equipment and participants are hardly a new thing in sport.

So he’s refusing to pay builders for work they have already done, and delays caused by the frequent changes he made to the plans? I thought I couldn’t despise him more than I already did.

Presumably their problem is not that there is a blanket ban on men, but that they can't randomly exclude some men.

Or the handmaidens know exactly what will happen to them and their families if they dare to wrongspeak

Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are abusive, unmeritorious legal actions used by powerful entities to intimidate, harass, and financially silence journalists, activists, and critics. Often framed as defamation or privacy claims, they aim to stifle public interest reporting, with the Solicitors Regulation Authority warning solicitors against pursuing these tactics.

Most commonly used in tax related cases.

Legislation has been brought in to tackle it against Russian Oligarchs.

Not so much against former tax lawyers or former policemen or those who identify as lawyers who are using the same strategy.

Another band name for our imaginary festival

• Jolyon and the Delusional Grifters

That article is five years old. I hope for the builder's sake it's been sorted out in the interim. They did an amazing job.

Does he still own it? I thought he'd put it on the market.

The anonymous volunteer! I suspect, knowing the point was moot, many people may have told this (I'm sure) completely unpartisan, not at all a frothing activist, what he wanted to hear to just make him go away quietly.

So they couldn’t find any actual women to give a quote. Just a man speaking for women. How regressive.

I see lcakethereforeIam has already posted about this.

I looked online but couldn't find any follow up, so the dispute must have been settled.
We don't know which side was in the right, it might even have been JoMo in fairness!
But it's ancient history by now, and there's a selection of more recent disputes that we can focus on

Excellent 🤣🤣

In what sense is the women's game worse for excluding some men, Mr Totally Exists But You Don't Know Him He Works For Another Club Volunteer?

If this guy does exist and these women are real ('if' doing a lot of lifting there) I imagine the dialogue went thusly:
Mansplaining Volunteer: "And it's a great shame, isn't it? That we can't be more inclusive? And you didn't really need those spots on the team and intact bones, did you? And the changing room thing was fine?"
Women Players Who've Seen what Happens When You Speak Up: "Well ..."

😁
Was it really unintentional, though?🤔
At one point in that era there was a Lillee, a Willey and a Dilley on the field!

edited cos I've just remembered a Gaelic football match where there was a Fox and a Rabbitte on opposing teams😄

Many men’s teams have women in their ranks or are officially mixed, unlike contact sports there’s no problem with women competing against men if they choose to but if it’s a specific women’s team it’s unfair to have individuals who have gone through male puberty due to the advantages it unfairly gives them.

I'm always a bit baffled by people who engage the Going to Lose Project. Are they thinking "this time, THIS time, they must win"?

I doubt it was unintentional if it did actually happen...

Anyone who listens to TMS will know the team very often dissolve into fits of giggles and aren’t averse to a double entendre. (When they are not scoffing cake.)

The quote has been attributed to Brian Johnston in a 1976 test match, but he later denied it and there are no recordings from that match iirc, but Michael Holding and Peter Willey did play in that test.

I think they take failure as yet more evidence of The Man being corrupt and brave wee JoMo taking a stand seems yet more heroic. You know that phenomenon where evidence to the contrary only makes people believe harder?

Will he wear a box? Or perhaps he is not afraid of the women bowlers physical strength

Coming out?? What planet is he on?
Does he really think we can’t tell the difference between a twat in a dress and a real woman?